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Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Edwin H. Holgate Ilustrador. First edition. A first English edition of Georges Bouchard"s vivid sketches of rural French-Canadian life, illustrated with woodcuts by renowned artist Edwin Holgate. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This volume is the first English edition of this work, a translation of his earlier French volume Vieilles Choses, Vieilles Gens: Silhouettes Campagnardes (1926). This edition features 25 striking woodcut illustrations, including three plates with one woodcut frontispiece in two colours, by the distinguished Canadian artist Edwin Holgate. Collated, complete.This volume offers vivid sketches of rural French-Canadian life, capturing traditions, characters, and customs from a bygone era.Georges Bouchard (18881956) was a French-Canadian author, journalist, and civil servant from Quebec. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Spine slightly discoloured. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine. book.